Re: Favourite Terminal for use with vim ?

On 26.02.13 20:11, Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2013, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > programmer and for banging out posts within mutt. I've heard of people
> > preferring urxvt, but never figured out why.
>
> For a long time, urxvt's unicode support was multiple orders of
> magnitude better than xterm's (as in: xterm didn't have any). If
> you use more than the 26 Latin chars used in ASCII English in your
> everyday language, proper first-order support is important. Since
> you're an old fart like me: Unicode support was/is the modern
> equivalent of being 8-bit clean.

Many thanks for that insight, Tobias.
By the time I needed to move to utf-8, xterm not only had its -u8 and
-wc options, but seems to handle as much as I encounter, by default.

> Also, urxvt can be compiled to be very, very small, which some
> people prefer for whatever reason.

Now that can be good to know. (I went for Debian with LXDE on my laptop,
to speed up booting, for example.)

Erik

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